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Linus is dead. Stabbed in his sleep by a malcontent mortal who'd pretended friendship to invite the Archangel to stay in his home for the night after singing away a storm. The killer was himself killed by the Archangel's brother, along for the trip, but this does not the less widow the angelica. It does not the less leave the country without its Archangel.
There were eighteen years left in Linus's term, and someone has to fill them out. Alleluia shoos her acolytes and addresses her interface.
The Archangel Linus is dead. Who will be the next Archangel?
The angel Isabella, daughter of the angel Rinnah and the mortal man Charles.
Alleluia's met her... She's very young, she would have been readier if she'd succeeded Linus at the natural end of his term, but Isabella it is.
...She should wait for this news to reach the Eyrie and for Isabella to ask her, but this is an emergency interim change of leadership. Perhaps Isabella would like to have the answer ready as soon as she touches down at Sinai.
And who will be her angelico?
Darius, son of Noah and Abigail.
That's... Well, that's not her acolyte's father's name, but -
- but isn't he adopted -
Alleluia clears the interface. She goes into the acolytes' dormitory and knocks at Darius's door.
Angel Isabella and Acolyte Adarin
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castmyown
"It's almost like people find having parts of them being set on fire inconvenient."
castmyown
"Well, you can if you want to, but I'll just pass on experimentally setting myself on fire. I've heard bad things about it."
jovahs_heiress
"There are plenty of things I haven't tried that I want to get to first, certainly."
castmyown
"I'll be getting singing lessons. I'm not, uh, bad, but. 'Not bad' is not." Handwave. "Not quite enough, so. I will be working on that."
jovahs_heiress
"All right. There are some easier masses that'll be fine for that range with mine, I'm a high soprano - you have to pick the mass yourself but you can take suggestions."
jovahs_heiress
"There's a few I like, but you should at least listen to a few before I start giving you input on that. Have you been to a Gloria before?"
jovahs_heiress
"Oh, Delilah's last one. Noah picked a nice mass but it might be a little challenging for your first."
castmyown
Cough. "Yeah, that's what I was thinking of, and uh. I am. Not ready for that, I think. I'm glad there's easier ones. That's actually really comforting."
jovahs_heiress
"There are easier ones. They're all still pretty demanding - and long - but you only have to learn one a year."
castmyown
"Right, yes. Not saying it'll be easy. Just a little less frightened. Which is nice."
jovahs_heiress
"And we can get you a voice teacher, someone with a range like yours."
castmyown
"Yeah. Is, there actually other angelico duties I need to do, or is it just the singing?"
jovahs_heiress
"There's nothing else you have to do. But you might be considered more approachable than me, so people might approach you."
jovahs_heiress
"Linus's angelica tended to soften up hostile negotiators before he came in to talk business or politics with them; I don't know if that would suit you - obviously if someone comes to you with a problem you can solve, solving it is an option - if you want to do anything useful with the Eyrie budget and it's not actually beyond our means you can do that."